National Party of South Africa

The National Party of South Africa (NP) was a conservative political party in South Africa that existed from 2 July 1915 to 2005. The National Party promoted the interests of the white Afrikaners and supported apartheid against the black Bantus, presiding over a segregated country from 1948 to 1994. In 1994, the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela formed a power-sharing government with the NP, which would collapse in the following years due to its negative past. In 1997, it changed its name to the New National Party, but this was also a failure, disbanding in 2005.